Citations
- 17 Tex. 647
Full opinion text
Hemphill, Ch. J.
Richard D. Blossom, the defendant below, was alleged in the petition to be a non-resident of the . State. His property was attached, and he was ordered to be cited by publication. Various errors have been assigned, but the only one insisted upon is, that there was no legal service of the citation. This was ordered in the process itself, to be published in the Lone Star and Texas Ranger, a newspaper published in the town of Washington, for four successive weeks before the return day : and the Sheriff returns that he executed the same by ordering the brief statement and writ to be published four successive weeks in the Lone Star and Texas Ranger, a newspaper published, &c., before the return day thereof. Attached to this return was an affidavit of Joseph Lancaster before a Notary Public, that he was the publisher